1. How might the Crusades have served as a
precursor to later mass migrations?
A. By offering an example of success for future migrations to follow
B. By focusing totally on religious ideals rather than commercial considerations
C. Making slaves out of the native population
D. Including the goals of conquest, settlement, economic gain, and missionary activity
CORRECT ANSWER = D
A. The Crusades were not successful; the last Crusader kingdom was destroyed in 1291
B. The Crusaders also established commercial settlements
2. How did the Columbian Exchange most
profoundly alter global demographics?
A. Through disease dramatically reducing the Amerindian population
B. Through wars with Europeans dramatically reducing the Amerindian population
C. Through diseases mutually destroying both European and Amerindian populations
D. Through exchanges of food which increased both European and Amerindian populations
CORRECT ANSWER = A
B. This had some effect, but not as horrifically as disease C. The Europeans did not suffer correspondingly
3. What was the impact of the “price revolution”
created by New World silver?
A. Prices in the Americas rose so high that most colonists were virtually reduced to slavery
B. It made Spain so wealth and powerful that she would dominate the world for five hundred years
C. Inflation went sky high in Europe, forcing more Europeans to migrate to America
CORRECT ANSWER = C
A. The price rise occurred in Europe
B. Spain squandered her wealth and soon declined D. That was just the problem, they did not rise
4. What might we refer to as the “first collective
settlement of Europeans”?
A. Virginia B. Maryland
C. New England D. Jamaica
CORRECT ANSWER = C
A. Individuals in search of economic advantage composed the majority of settlers
B. Though Maryland was founded by Catholics, they arrived later than the New England Pilgrims
D. There, individuals seeking profits from plantations predominated
5. How is it that the Antipodes were not
immediately colonized by Europeans?
A. Because of Tasman’s unpromising descriptions B. Because of competition from Asians
C. Because of the rise of Dutch, Spanish & Portuguese power in the region
CORRECT ANSWER = A
B. The Asians had very little contact with the Anitpodes C. The reverse, these powers were on the decline
D. Shipwrecks occurred everywhere, so this had little bearing
6. What, on the basis of Cook’s report, did the
British government decide the fate of Australia
to be?
A. A center for exporting slugs to China B. A gold mining center
C. A multicultural European-Aborigine society D. A convict colony
CORRECT ANSWER = D
A. This had been done much earlier by Asians (Indonesians)
B. Gold was not known there until the 1850’s
7. By what ratio did the economic importance of
slavery rise in the Caribbean?
A. In proportion to the expansion of the tobacco plantation economy
B. In proportion to the number of gold fields discovered there
C. In proportion to the overall health of the slaves
D. In proportion to the expansion of the sugar plantation economy
CORRECT ANSWER = D
A. Tobacco was much more important in North America B. There were scarcely any gold fields in the Caribbean C. Plantation owners there believed it was cheaper to
8. How is it that slavery developed as a major
business in West Africa?
A. Because of festering hatred between African nations B. In a region where private property was not
recognized, slaves represented the main source of wealth
C. African kings would control slave traders and skim off the profits
CORRECT ANSWER = B
A. International relations there were no worse than elsewhere
C. They were never able to control traders
9. What does Philip Curtin’s analysis of the slave
trade definitively state?
A. That 15 million Africans had been taken to the Americas
B. Birth rates among slaves in North America were proportionately higher than elsewhere
C. Some three-quarters of the slaves sold overseas were women
D. More Europeans than Africans arrived in the Americas from 1491-1770
CORRECT ANSWER = B
A. He states that this figure has not been researched C. Curtin has the fraction at only one-third
10. How do the conquests of western Europeans and
central Asians differ?
A. The time frame is roughly parallel
B. They sometimes engaged in ruthless cruelty C. The distances traveled were equally vast
D. They were eventually assimilated by the people they conquered
CORRECT ANSWER = D
A. Both were most active during the 16th-17th centuries
B. They each had a record of massacre and atrocity C. The Ottomans traveled thousands of miles through
11. Why was the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 of such
great significance?
A. It marked the end of the Ottoman Empire
B. It set the informal boundaries in the Mediterranean between Christians & Muslims
C. It was the last attempt made by the Turks to seize Vienna
CORRECT ANSWER = B
A. The Ottoman Empire continued for centuries C. The Turks last try this in 1683
12. How might Akbar’s style of governing/policy
best be described?
A. Harsh and brutal
B. Relegating Hindus to inferior status C. Tempering conquest with conciliation
CORRECT ANSWER = C
A. He realized as a foreigner and a member of a mioirity religion that he could not be too harsh
B. He went out of his way to conciliate them D. He encouraged and relished religious debate
13. How did the Safavids acquire their power base
in Persia?
A. From Shi’ite Muslims B. From Sunni Muslims
C. From Jews and Zoroastrians D. From Sufi Muslims
CORRECT ANSWER = A
B., C., & D. were groups they persecuted or tried to convert by force
14. What accounts for China’s spectacular
18
thCentury population growth?
A. Ming Dynasty border policy
B. Discovery of a new variety of rice
C. Introduction of potatoes, peanuts & other American crops
CORRECT ANSWER = C
A. The Ming Dynasty was long gone by the 18th century
B. No new variety seems to have been discovered D. Medical technology was not yet so advanced
